IT was recorded in NATURE of February 18, p. 229, that Pepys, after an interval of non-service, re-entered the council of the Royal Society at the anniversary meeting on November 30, 1681, Sir ...

Though the 17th century naval clerk and Tory MP only kept a diary for nine-and-a-bit years, that was plenty of time to open a ...

Pepys wrote about several significant historical events during this time period, such as the Second Anglo-Dutch War, the Great Fire of London, and the Great Plague of London in 1665.

Diarist Samuel Pepys - who chronicled the Great Fire of London and plague - is being honoured with a £2 coin. And if past form is anything you go on it could be selling for a lot more than that ...

Samuel Pepys (1633–1703), the famous English diarist and naval administrator, had a penchant for fancy French clothes - although he described a fellow France-loving Englishman as 'an absolute ...

Pepys was curious, at any rate, whatever his more settled opinion may have been. The neglect of proper ceremonial rites made him uneasy, as when the clergyman omitted the sign of the Cross at a ...

Pepys was an avid collector of books. Soon after his death, his meticulously ordered library, including the diaries, was transferred to which city, where it remains to this day in the original ...

THE final edition of Pepys is a matter that may deservedly receive some brief attention. In these twelve volumes, 1 admirable in all points of bookmaking, low-priced, and containing large ...

The 17th century diarist Samuel Pepys’s collection of French fashion prints casts light on his attitudes to fashion in the period after he stopped keeping a diary, an academic has said.

Pepys decided “never to appear in Court” with the sleeves and made a tailor cut them off, “as it is fit I should”. Pepys learnt a lesson that day but this did not put him off fashion.

Samuel Pepys, diarist extraordinary, was nothing if not a Londoner. Born just off Fleet Street and buried at Tower Hill, he lived London to the full, frequenting its theatres, churches, pubs and ...

Pepys' decade of keeping a diary began at New Year in 1660 when he was 27 and ended in spring 1669. The diary is an amazing insight into someone desperately trying to keep his head above water.